Legal Opinion
Daniel J. O'Neill v. Dell Publishing Co., Inc., Neal R. Burger, and George E. Simpson,defendants-Appellees.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 18, 1980No. 80-1147PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
In this copyright case, plaintiff-appellant, Daniel J. O’Neill, appeals from summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., and the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction as to defendants-appellees, Neal R. Burger and George E. Simpson. Plaintiff claims that the defendants violated his common law copyright in his unpublished manuscript novel, Return to Nowhere, by publication of the book, Ghost Boat, written by Burger and Simpson and published by Dell. We affirm the grant of summary judgment on the basis of lack of substantial similarity and find…
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